D. Garcia

I live it, I feel it, I write it, I sing it.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@analoghandprint @NARCFILM @goingonabendr @Zer0reflect Doesn't he also eat people or something? There's only so much we can map out of his logic.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@GabGarrett @zephyr_z9 All of those examples are the same example of luxury/Veblen goods, which are a known anomaly in economics in how demand relates to price.

It doesn't apply to other consumer goods, and even less so in the business domain where the ROI needs to be much more explicit.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

Is that something you're pulling from a larger framework or is it something you reflected into and thought sounded intuitive enough? Because there are many things wrong with that argument, and some of them are glaringly obvious.

For an easy example: your argument cherry picks criteria that make writing sound more complex while ignoring the attributes of speech that make writing look far more forgiving in comparison as a reflection of intelligence. Speech is real-time and irreversible, there is no visualization of the draft, no editing buffer so the speaker has to model the full message before they start articulating it. That's a higher-order cognitive demand than revision.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@DeepPsycho_HQ It is also not deep

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@junker_jo I used them interchangeably, which is either evidence for the hallucination hypothesis or evidence for me getting just half crazy during that period

[Nick @nickcammarata]

everyone i know invents each area of their life from first principles and this leads to a lot of miracles and also frequently breaks them

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

I'm curious too why people keep bringing Salesforce as the example for this, I guess because it's so expensive.

But I remember reading years ago that in some sophisticated orgs Salesforce had become more of a backend, with the org building custom workflows or abstractions on top of the Salesforce API rather than using it directly.

If that's true, then facilitating that kind of interface layer, which AI excels at, is how I'd imagine vibe coding being leveraged against tools that are that complex. Trying to reinvent the tool is such a fool's errand, and that applies to more SaaS tbh.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@emollick If I hear about something being "load-bearing" one more time

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@Moleh1ll My favorite part of that was seeing a noticeable drop in ChatGPT's sense of humor, e.g. ignoring jokes in the prompt where previous models would yes-and

It was kind of endearing, like it saw the respect its younger brother was getting and unconsciously started emulating it

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@blingdivinity The way its even a photo of the screen, absolute cinema

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

The phrase can be a very useful tool if you account for the level abstraction: that someone's pattern of diligence vs carelessness is usually legible in everything they do. Of course the axiom in your case being that you're not really being careless by applying less diligence to bedmaking than you do to more high-stakes and high-yield activities like the final draft of a book.

But I totally see where you're coming from in that having to parse a phrase too much defeats its usefulness, and there's a lot of such phrases that I don't like because of that. I just really like that one because it made me realize some deep-seated habits and patterns I hadn't connected before as all stemming from the same weak points in my executive functioning.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@ccchristtt I mean yeah, that's how nostalgia usually plays out

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@Mappletons That's exactly the kind of micro tool I love making for my workflows! Enthusiastically followed.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@orbittingg Yes

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

No, not really. I mean, that's probably what they'd THINK they were doing.

But really they would just be pattern-matching the audio in the post to how popular media has historically used audio warping techniques to make demon-like characters's voices sound deep and uncanny, for a more menacing effect.

And over time, the effect became associated with the mythological figure you speak of.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@SketchesbyBoze Who are those people you think exist that apparently use AI because they're under a belief that the writing quality of the output is higher than that of a human and/or comparable to Shakespeare?

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

The problem with that logic is that as long as I am still living I need to deal with the problems that affect the qualities of that continued existence. Once I'm gone they truly become insignificant, but as long as I'm here they are very consequential to me.

That's why I don't get to dismiss even my minor problems in any way comparable to the people who will talk about me after I'm dead.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

My opinion of who I was when I was starting out had no self-awareness of nuance, other people's idea of who I was were a lot closer to the truth

My recommendation is a bit different: find trustworthy mentor figures who can use the benefit of experience to help you discover yourself, and always stay epistemically humble because something you think strongly about yourself might flip the moment you gain more perspective/resolution

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@AmenaiSabuwala For $500, yes – if I needed just a set of consistent screenshots, that's about the range I'd pay to see the task gone entirely from my radar.

And it'd be money well spent because it wouldn't have delivered any less than what I needed. Good work.

[D. Garcia @doda_____]

@Andy_McQuade @salvin_joseph Pretty sure that's the prompt